Solving the Puzzle: The Gap in Minnesota's Early Care and Education Finance and Governance Structures (PDF)

Commissioned by MELF, a team of graduate students from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs analyzed Minnesota's current structure for financing and governing the state's early childhood care and education system. They provided a proposal on how to close the gap between the current system and other states' "best practices." The report was finalized in 2008.

Getting kids kindergarten-ready: A profile of the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (PDF)

This overview of MELF was printed in the Community Dividend (Issue 4, 2007), a publication of the Community Affairs Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The article, written by Ericca Maas, provides a helpful overview of the purpose of MELF and how it came into existence.